Kenya’s Post-election Consultation Discourse: An Analysis of the Discursive Strategies Adopted for Post 2007 Elections

Authors

Margaret Nasambu Barasa

Synopsis

Kenya’s Post-election Consultation Discourse: An Analysis of the Discursive Strategies Adopted for Post 2007 Elections is a documentation of the role of language in the operation of a power-sharing government as a mechanism for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Conflicts arising out of disputed elections often result in the formation of coalition governments to secure peace and stability. Consequently, mechanisms such as mediation, arbitration, negotiation, and peacekeeping have been employed to restore peace in conflicting states of Africa. This work examines the language in the discourses of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga as Principals in the 2008 Kenyan Coalition Government. This volume is useful to linguists, state and non-state actors and political scientists as it reveals the extent to which the language choices of political leaders are highly restrained, personalized and mitigated.

Utafiti Academic Press

Published

2022

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